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Jeebo

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3. Those are not the same double quote characters.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 20, 2021, 10:49 PM

Jun 2021

Look closely, yours are slanted and mine (typed on a 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop keyboard) are straight. Different characters. If I knew how to access your slanted quotes, I'd start using them.

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Question about glitch in posts. [View all] Jeebo Jun 2021 OP

Trying it from old iPad. Hoyt Jun 2021 #1

Those are not the same double quote characters. Jeebo Jun 2021 #3

Yeah, I noticed that. Don't know why, but they are slanted on my screen keyboard Hoyt Jun 2021 #7

Hmm....I think I will try it, too. Blue Dawn Jun 2021 #2

Insert a space before your quotes PJMcK Jun 2021 #4

What makes it weird though is that ONLY ONE character is being converted to an emoji Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #6

You're right that is a glitch in the software used in the forum Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #5

They may be escaping double quotes in the database to prevent scripts from running. Make7 Jul 2021 #8